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Reagan assassination attempt,
1981
• President Ronald
Reagan is
assassinated in
March 30, 1981
U.S. marine barracks in Beirut
bombed, 1983
• Oct 1983 Hezbollah is
believed to have
ties to Iranianbacked Shiite
militants who
kidnapped
Westerners and
bombed American
targets in Beirut
during the civil
war.
U.S, invasion of Grenada, 1983
• Operation Desert
to help protect
Saudi Arabia
from a possible
Iraqi invasion.
Challenger accident, 1986
• Challenger
Disaster, an
accident that
occurred on January
28, 1986, moments
after lift-off at
Cape Canaveral,
Florida. The space
shuttle Challenger
exploded , killing
all aboard.
US bombs Libya, 1986
• US retaliated
for a terrorist
bombing in
Berlin.
Iran-contra scandal begins, 1986
• Reagan and his
administration
arranged to sell
arms to Iran in
return for Iran’s
assistance in
releasing
hostages. The
money was then
illegally used to
aid the
Nicaraguan
contras
Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986
• A nuclear
accident in
which tons of
radioactivity
were expelled
from a nuclear
plant in
Chernobyl
INF Treaty, 1987
• The INF treaty was
signed by the USA
and the USSR on
December 8, 1987.
It forbids the
parties to have,
buy, produce and
construct ballistic
missiles with
intermediate ranges
defined as between
500-5500 km
Black Monday, 1987
• international
stock markets
crashed on Monday
19 October 1987,
a day which has
become known as
'Black Monday'—
'the day the roof
fell in' as one
journalist
reported it
Savings and Loan bailout begins,
1989
• a program to rescue
the stricken
Savings & Loan
industry. The
announcement made
plain for the first
time the depth of a
financial sector
crisis that had
been brewing
throughout the
1980s and which
regulators had been
unable to defuse.
Tiananmen Square massacre,
1989
• A student
protest in which
in June 4, the
Chinese
government fired
against the
protestors to
turn them down
Exxon Valdez oil spill, 1989
It has been
considered one of
the biggest oil
spills in the
World
Berlin wall destroyed,1989
• It meant the end
of communism in
Germany and it
put the west and
the east side of
Germany together
as a whole again
Persian Gulf War, 1991
• Bush wins
congressional
approval for his
position with the
most devastating
air assault in
history against
military targets
in Iraq and
Kuwait.
Soviet Union disbanded, 1991
• In the summer of
1991, the New
Union Treaty,
which would have
turned the
Soviet Union
into a much
looser
federation
Rodney King beating, 1991
• Los Angeles
police officers
beating motorist
Rodney King
Los Angeles race riots, 1992
• Thousands of people
in the Los Angeles
area rioted over the
six days following
the verdict.
Widespread looting,
assault, arson and
murder occurred, and
property damages
topped roughly US$1
billion. In all, 53
people died during
the riots and
thousands more were
injured.[
Operation Restore Hope,
1992-1994
• This operation,
called Operation
Restore Hope,
saw the United
States assuming
the .....
Stewart, Richard
W., The United
States Army in
Somalia,
Branch Davidians attacked in
Waco, 1993
• FBI attacked a
church from this
sect and killed
many people on
the way in, and
so many
officials were
killed
NAFTA, 1993
• A fund that was
nationally
created to aid
students with
funds for
College.
Contract with America, 1994
• Included a list of
eight reforms the
Republicans promised
to enact, and ten
bills they promised
to bring to floor
debate and votes, if
they were made the
majority following
the
election.[citation
needed] During the
construction of the
Contract, proposals
were limited to "60%
issues",
O.J. Simpson trial, 1995
• Tried on two
counts of murder
following the
June 1994 deaths
of his ex-wife
Nicole Brown
Simpson and her
friend Ronald
Goldman.
Million Man March, 1995
• African-American
men from across
the country
gathered on
Washington's
National Mall
October 16, for a
massive Million
Man March
advocating
"unity, atonement
and brotherhood".
Oklahoma City bombing, 1995
• At 9:02 a.m. on
April 19, 1995,
a large bomb
decimated the
Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building
in Oklahoma
City, killing
168 people.
Federal Government shut down,
1996
• The result of a
conflict between
Democratic
President Clinton
and the Republicancontrolled Congress
over funding for
Medicare,
education, the
environment and
public health. It
took place after
Clinton vetoed the
spending bill which
Congress sent him.
Balanced Budget Agreement,
1987
• The idea of an
international
agreement on
reducing
emissions is not
so much about
reducing
Bombing of Serbia, 1998
• NATO bombed
Serbia killing
many civilians
and the US did
nothing to
control this air
attack.
Clinton Impeachment trial, 1999
• Bill Clinton, President of
the United States, was
impeached by the House
of Representatives on
charges of perjury and
obstruction of justice on
December 19, 1998
Election of 2000
•
Candidates: Al Gore and Joe
Lieberman (Democrat), George W.
Bush and Dick Cheney (Republican),
Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke
(Green Party)
•
The Winner: George W. Bush
•
Popular Vote: 50,996,582 (Gore) to
50,465,062 (Bush)
•
Electoral College: 271 (Bush) to 266
(Gore)
•
The 2000 election was the fourth
election in U.S. history in which the
winner of the electoral votes did not
carry the popular vote. It was the first
such election since 1888, when
Benjamin Harris became president
after winning more electoral votes
but losing the popular vote to Grover
Cleveland.
Newt Gingrich
• June 17, 1943) is an
American politician who
served as the 58th
Speaker of the United
States House of
Representatives from
1995 to 1999.
• Republican
Louis Farrakhan
Born: 11 May 1933
Birthplace: The Bronx, New York
Best Known As: Head of the
Nation of Islam, 1978-
• Louis X, chose to
dedicate his life to the
Teachings of the
Honorable Elijah
Muhammad.
• Million Man March
• Minister Farrakhan
launched a prostate
cancer foundation in his
name May 10-11, 2003.
•
Sandra Day O'Connor was the
Sandra Day O’Connor
first woman and the 102nd
person to sit on the Supreme
Court of the United States.
•
1st major case came in 1982;
sex discrimination.
•
Webster vs. Reproductive
Health Services The 5 to 4
decision upheld the law giving
states the right to make specific
abortion decisions.
Born in El Paso, Texas in 1930
"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between
men's and women's earnings for the same work."
Geraldine Ferraro
• Was an American attorney.
• Democratic Party politician,
• Member of the United
States House of
Representatives.
• First female Vice
Presidential candidate
representing a major
American political party.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
•
67th United States Secretary of State
serving in the administration of
President Barack Obama
•
U.S Senator from New York
January 3, 2001 – January 21, 2009
•
First Lady of the United States
January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001
•
First Lady of Arkansas
January 11, 1983 – December 12,
1992
Democratic Party
Spouse; Bill Clinton
Janet Reno
•
Attorney General of the United States
(1993–2001).
•
She was nominated by President Bill
Clinton on February 11, 1993, and
confirmed on March 11.
•
1st female Attorney General and the
second longest serving Attorney
Genera after William Wirt.
Democratic
Madeleine Albright
• 64th U.S Secretary of State
January 23, 1997 – January 20, 2001
• 20th U.S Ambassador to the United
Nations
January 27, 1993 – January 21, 1997
• Played a lead role in forging America's
successful response to terror and
ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, and was a
forceful advocate of bringing war
criminals to justice.
•
45th Vice President of the United States
January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001
Al Gore
Born; March 31, 1948
Democratic
•
United States Senator
from Tennessee
January 3, 1985 – January 2, 1993
•
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Tennessee's 6th district
January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1985
•
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Tennessee's 4th district
January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1983
•
Service/branch; United States Army
Years of service1969–1971
Supply-side economics
•
School of macroeconomic thought that argues that economic
growth can be most effectively created by lowering barriers for
people to produce (supply) goods and services, such as lowering
income tax and capital gains tax rates, and by allowing greater
flexibility by reducing regulation.
Moral Majority
• Political organization of the United States which had an
agenda of evangelical Christian-oriented political
lobbying. It was founded in 1979 and dissolved in the late
1980s.
Contras
• label given to the various rebel groups opposing
Nicaragua's FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional)
Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government
following the July 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza
Debayle's dictatorship.
Sandinistas
• Socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called
Sandinistas in both English and Spanish. The party is named
after Augusto César Sandino who led the Nicaraguan
resistance against the United States occupation of Nicaragua
in the 1930s
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
• Proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on
March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based
systems to protect the United States from
attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.
AIDS
• Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the
human immune system caused by the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV).[
Operation Desert Storm
• Operation Desert Storm, popularly known as the first
Gulf War, was the successful U.S.-Allied response to
Iraq's attempt to overwhelm neighboring Kuwait.
Internet
• global system of interconnected computer networks that use
the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of
users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of
millions of private, public, academic, business, and government
networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad
array of electronic, wireless and optical networking
technologies.
Human Genome Project
• The Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international scientific
research project with a primary goal of determining the
sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA, and of
identifying and mapping the approximately 20,000–25,000
genes of the human genome from both a physical and
functional standpoint.
Dolly
• Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female
domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned
from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear
transfer.
Ronald Reagan
•
33rd Governor of California
January 2, 1967 – January 6, 1975
•
40th President of the U.S
January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989
•
Military service
United States Army Air Forces
Years of service
1937– 1945
Rank
Captain
Born; February 6, 1911)
Tampico, Illinois
Died; June 5, 2004
George W. Bush
• 43rd President of the U.S
January 20, 2001 – January 20, 2009
• 46th Governor of Texas
January 17, 1995 – December 21, 2000
• Military service
-Texas Air National Guard
-Alabama Air National Guard
Years of service
1968–1974
Rank
First Lieutenant
Bill Clinton
• 42nd President of the U.S
January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001
• 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas
January 9, 1979 – January 19, 1981
• 50th Arkansas Attorney General
January 3, 1977 – January 9, 1979
Democratic
Ross Perot
• American businessman best
known for running for President
of the United States in 1992 and
1996.
• Perot founded Electronic Data
Systems (EDS) in 1962
• Sold the company to General
Motors in 1984 and founded
Perot Systems in 1988.
• Perot Systems was bought by Dell
for $3.9 billion in 2009.
Born; June 27, 1930 )
Texarkana, Texas.
Mikhail Gorbachev
• Head of state of the Soviet Union
(President of the Soviet Union from
15 March 1990)
October 1988 – 25 December 1991
• 6th General Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union
11 March 1985 – 24 August 1991
Born;2 March 1931
Democrat